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This page provides links to compliance arrangements with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics and with the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008
The attached statement is published in conformance with the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008 which was approved by Parliament under Section 11 of the Statistics and Registration Services Act 2007.
The statement sets out the Department of Health's operational arrangements for giving Ministers and selected officials pre-release access to official statistics once they are in their final form prior to publication. Such arrangements are likewise subject to statutory requirement.
These arrangements are designed to ensure that such access is justified, limited, controlled and publicised and complies with statutory requirements. Their purpose is to maintain public confidence in the integrity of official statistics while also allowing Ministers to account immediately for the implications of statistics covering policy or operational areas for which they are responsible.
The Department of Health's National Statistics are required to comply with the Code, while DH's official statistics follow the Code as best practice. Below is a link to the Code, links to policies and statements which describe our compliance with specific aspects of the Code, and a link to a list of our products to which the Code applies.
Official UK statistics and information about statistics.
